Thirty-four:
King Aiden
There was one person that I had in mind when I got back to the palace after spending time with Tommy at the hospital. Sinead Bryony. The gardeners daughter. She had lived on the castle grounds for as long as I could remember, just her and her mother. Sinead was the first girl that I had ever had s*x with, and I had never told Lucy about it. Sinead was part of my other life, my daily life, not in the summer time. I had seen the way that Lucy had gotten when I mentioned other girls before, and I knew that she and Sinead were friends.
But it was Sinead who knew how many times I had stumbled into the palace secretly drunk. It was Sinead who had help me nurse hangovers and hide my alcohol breath. It was Sinead that had been there for me when Mallory died, w
